The Screen Guide

Carlotta2013

TV drama | 90mins | Completed

CARLOTTA is based on the extraordinary life of iconic Les Girls headliner and Australian transgender pioneer, Carlotta. Spanning forty years of groundbreaking social and sexual upheaval, Carlotta lays bare the life of the sexually confused teenager Richard Byron and his flight from a neglectful and abusive household into the turbulence of the hedonistic Kings Cross of the sixties and seventies. We witness the birth of the transsexual underworld against the threat of criminal prosecution as well as social rejection and with it, the emergence of the all conquering drag queen and performer, Carlotta.

Screen Australia supported

Development Support

Project-specific support provided by Screen Australia's development programs since the agency's inception in July 2008.

Production support

Project-specific support provided by Screen Australia's production investment programs since the agency's inception in July 2008. Includes investments, loans and grants. Excludes Producer Offset and Producer Equity Program.

Marketing support

Project-specific support provided through Screen Australia's P&A Program only. Shortly this will also incorporate project-specific market and festival support provided by Screen Australia since its inception in July 2008.